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you can pay obese people to lose weight, but you can't have something like that everywhere.
by jlebrech 9y ago
you can pay obese people to lose weight, but you can't have something like that everywhere.
- zdkl 9y agoStairs on one side and something like a waterwheel on the other. Charge less than a gym and sell it as partially powering whatever local association/charity could do with a break. Credit me when it's a thing heh
- govg 9y agoProceeding along this train of thought, they've already made a TV show episode out of it : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteen_Million_Merits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteen_Million_Merits
- davnicwil 9y agoI know this is a joke, but I wonder if this concept - a gym where the machines generate power - actually could be a thing. It's greener in a pleasantly 'immediate' way - i.e. you could quite literally be keeping the lights, music system, etc on at the gym :-) And what's more, assuming power costs are a non-trivial overhead, it could even result in lower membership fees. If somebody opens a gym like this, sign me up!
- jlebrech 9y agothat would be cool, you power the batteries and those batteries light up the gym and power the usb sockets the the user's phones.
- gambiting 9y agoThe gym that I go has machines that are almost all self-powered, with the exception of things like thread mils for obvious reasons. So if you jump on a stationary bike none of the electronics will turn on unless you start pedaling, and to get the fan going you have to pedal for a minute or so first.
- tinym 9y agohttp://www.thegreenmicrogymbelmont.com/about/ http://www.thegreenmicrogymbelmont.com/about/